1008 FAMILY XXXIII. — SALDID;£. 



III. Saldula Van Duzee, 1914a, 32. 



This genus comprises the majority of the species formerly 

 listed under Acanthia and Salda, the differences between the 

 two genera being only those given in the key, p. 1004. Nineteen 

 species"* of Saldula are recognized by Van Duzee from North 

 America, ten of which occur in the eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF SALDULA. 



a. Narrow side margins of pronotum yellowish; upper surface without 

 erect hairs ; corium and membrane largely pale, cells of latter 

 with dark spots. 1146. xanthochila. 



aa. Side margins of pronotum black; upper surface with or without 

 erect hairs. 

 b. Sides of pronotum curved. 

 c. Costal area of corium almost wholly black; upper surface black 

 with a few pale spots; length, 6 — 8 mm. 1147. major. 



cc. Costal area of corium white or yellowish, usually spotted with 

 darker. 

 d. Upper surface of body with long erect hairs. 

 e. Form elongate-oval; surface shining; costal area with two 

 elongate yellowish spots; length, 6 — 6.3 mm. 



1148. CONFLUENTA. 

 ee. Form orbicular; surface dull, covered with a yellowish pubes- 

 cence; entire costal area except base dull yellow; length, 3.5 — 

 4.5 mm. 1149. orbiculata. 



dd. Upper surface of body without erect hairs ; length less than 

 5 mm. 

 /. Pale spots of corium large, whitish, usually broadly joined to 

 the marginal ones; elytra often mostly pale with ill-defined, 

 vague brownish spots; tibiae pale. 1150. interstitialis. 



//. Pale spots of corium small, obscure, not joined to the marginal 

 ones; costal area with one long median pale spot and a small 

 one near apex. 1151. saltatoria. 



bb. Sides of pronotum straight. 



g. Upper surface of body with long erect hairs ; corium black, except 

 a small white spot near apex of costal area. 1152. separata. 

 gg. Upper surface of body without erect hairs. 



h. Costal area of elytra either wholly pale or with large pale spots; 

 middle and hind femora without brown dots. 

 i. Costal area entirely pale except at base, forming a regular yel- 

 lowish stripe margined each side by a brownish nervure. 



1153. opacula. 

 ii. Costal area with two long yellowish spots, the apical one paral- 

 leled within by a small, pure white oval one. 1154. reperta. 



98 0f these S. sphacelata is above treated under Pcntacora, while pellita (Uhler) 

 Is a synonym of /'. hirta, and pallipes (Fab.), as recognized by American authors, is 

 the same as interstitialis (Say). The record of the nalaearctic species S. scotica 

 (Curt.) from "America Borealis." is too indefinite for its inclusion in this work. 



